Re: FVWM: another (nice!) suggestion

From: Chris <cjep_at_solace0.demon.co.uk>
Date: 03 Oct 1998 13:06:57 +0100

Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:

> FocusWindowStaysVisible
>
> or something like that. What it would do is the following: say I am typing in
> an xterm and launch netscape. On small screens especially, typically netscape
> ends up covering the xterm window. As you are typing, you end up typing into the
> window with the netscape browser (netscape takes about 15 minuts to come up on
> my PC so I usually try to do something else while it launches). The same applies
> to other applications, not just Netscape. So when I launch them, I don't care
> where they end up, as long as they don't cover the window that has focus (or
> the window that had last focus if i am launching from a menu).
>
> [snip]
> Please send me some feedback on this,

This sounds like a nice feature, PROVIDED you could turn it off. The
inclusion of FvwmAuto in version 2 of Fvwm meant that people like me
who like autoraise, but on the very odd occasion want to turn it off
can by simply killing the module. Perhaps a module to handle your idea
would be good? And perhaps could include some intelligent window
organizing features.

regards to all,

Chris
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